Radiosignaling apparatus



' R. A. WEAGANT.

RADIOSIGNALING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-1,1918.

1,389,800. PatentedSept. 6, 1921.

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Swuewfoa R. A. WEAGANT.

RADIOSIGNALING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1, 191B.

1 ,389,800. I PatentedSept. 6, 1921 3 SHEETSSHEET 2.

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3D? ALEXAHDER WEAGANT, OF NEW YORK, N. Z, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, T0 RADIO GORPORATION OF AMERICA, A. CORPORATEON 6F RADXGSIGIIALING AZPEABATUS.

Application filed February 1, 1913.

To all whom it may concern: i

. Be it known that 1', ROY ALEXANDER WnA- claim, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Douglas Manor, county of Queens, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiosignalin Apparatus, of which the following is a specification accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to radio signaling apparatus of the same general character as that disclosed in my co-pending application, Serial Number 181,4:58, filed July 19, 1917, :tor a method and apparatus for eliminating interference with radio communication due to atmospheric or static disturbances.

lln that application, I disclosed broadly a preferred method and means for carrying out the invention, with antenna for receiving from a iven distant transmitting sta: tion. The ooject of the present invention is to enable the method to be carried out with apparatus including separated an-.

vention is a modification of my basic invention.

The accompanying drawings are illustrative of preferred forms of apparatus for carryingout the invention in which,

Figure 1, is-.a diagrammatic representa tion of circuits and apparatus embodying the invention.

Figs. 2 and 3,- ar similar views of modifications, and

Fig. 4, shows the disposition' of the receiving station with relation to a plurality of distant transmitting stations.

As disclosed in detail in co-pending application referred to, I employ a plurality of antennae, so located and adjusted that static efi'ects will produce currents therein substantially similar in phase, while signal impulses will produce currents dissimilar in phase. I am thus enabled, by suitable circuits and apparatus, to detect at signals Specification or Letters Patent.

which connections lead to Patented :Eiept. 6, 1921.

Eerial Ho. 214,827.

while eliminating the interference due to the static disturbances.

Referring to the drawings, and more es antenna, the loops or" each antenna being shown at an angle to each other, preferably at right angles, for convenience. The antenna elements A A and A A are preferably in substantially the same or parallel planes as shown, while-the plurality of dis: tant transmitting stations T T from which signals areto be received, may be located respectively in the general direction of the planes of the antenna elements A A and Af A ,.but not necessarily in the same planes with these pairs or" elements.

?ai'rs of leads B B B B extend from the antennae to a receiving station provided with suitable receiving apparatus, for discriminating between the effects due to received signal waves and heterogeneous waves in the manner described. Each of the pairs of leads, B B B B has included therein suitable tuning inductances C C C C from airs of coils D D, the circuits of the col s D D being shown completed throug capacity elements or variable condensers M E.

'lVithin the space effected by the coils D D, and preferably rotatably mounted on an axis D parallel to the planes of the coils D D, is a coil F, which is subjected to the fields of force set up in coils D D, and

which is suitably connected to the detecting and indicating circuits. B suitably connecting the coils and adjusting the angular ,55 this instance, by way of illustration, as loop.

A are receiving from station T the static is also eliminated, in accordance with my discovery and'the theories upon which that discovery is based, as set forth at length inmy co-pending application herei'nbefore referred to. lb

The detecting and indicating cir uits may be of any suitable. or desirable type and as shown the coil F is connected through suitable loading inductance G, condenser H, and coupling coil l, to the detector. In the arrangement shown this circuit, F G H I, is tuned to the frequency of the incoming signal The detector shown in thilz iinstance as a three-element vacuum valve I to the oscillatory circuit, J K, coupled to the coil 1. The circuits associated With the detector M may be as shown, includin in addition to the usual plate circuit, P Q S, an oscillatory circuit P U W S.

In the modification of the apparatus shown in Fig. 2, the tintennae instead of being in the form of loops are straight antennm, and I have found that the antennae, it in the form'of straight wires, plates, or a network, may be laid horizontally, or 811bstantially horizontally, instead of in an elevated position. In Fig. 2 it is tobe assumed that antennae elements a a and a a are substantially horizontally arranged instead of in a vertical position. The coil D is connected to the antenna a a and the coil D is connected to the antenna a a The inductances c, c c and c ,and the variable capacity elements in the form of condensers c, e, e and e are preferably connected in the respective leads I), 7), b and B3 connecting the antennae with the coils D D.

In'the modification shown in Fig. 3 the same arrangement as that indicated in Fig. 2- is illustrated, except that different forms of antennae are shown. The antennae 2 and 5 are in the form of closedjoops, connected by the leads Z) and b to the coils D D, respectively. The antenna l is in the form of a plate connected by lead 6 to the coil D, while the antenna 3 is in the form of a net work, connected by lead I) to the coil D. These loop, or plate, or network antennae may be arranged vertically or horizontally, as desired; in either case I found that I am enabled to substantially eliminate static interference with the signals. p

I claim and desire to obtain, by Letters Patent, the following:

1: In combination, at a radio receiving station, a plurality of separated antennae, tuned to the same frequency and adapted to receive horizontally propagated waves in a plurality of directions, and receiving apparatus for utilizing the signal waves, including means for eliminating the interference due to static disturbances.

2.- In combination, at a. radio receiving station, a plurality of separated antennae,

, "is connected situated at a distance apart equal to-an appreciable fraction of a wave length and adapted to receive horizontally propagated Waves in a, plurality of directions and receiving apparatus for utilizing the signal waves, including means for eliminating the interference due to static disturbances.

3. In combination, at a radio receiving station, a plurality of separated antennae, situated at a distance apart equal to an appreciable fraction of a Wave length and adapted to receive horizontally propagated waves in a plurality of directions, and receiving apparatus common to said antennas for utilizing the signal Waves, including means for eliminating the interferenceclue to static disturbances.

4. In combination at a radio receiving station an antenna system comprising two open antenna wires disposed horizontally and extending an appreciable fraction of a wave length in opposite directions, said wires having adjacent ends connected to a common I receiver comprising means for balancing out static and combining the out of phase currents set up in said wires to produce a signal.

5. In combination, at a radio receiving station, a plurality of separated antennae, situated at a distance apart equal to an appreciable fraction of a Wave length and adapted to receive horizontally propagated Waves in a plurality of directions, and receiving apparatus common to said antennae for utilizing the signal Waves, including means for neutralizing the effects in the antennae of static disturbances, thereby re ducing static interference.

6. An antenna system comprising a plurality of antennae including one pair effectively separated an appreciable fraction of a Wave length in one desired direction of reception of the signal, and another pair efi'ectively separated an appreciable fraction of a wave length in a direction at an angle to that of the first pair, each antenna being directional in the line of the pair in which it is arranged and cumulativel combining the signal to a greater extent t an the interference.

7. In combination, at a radio receiving station, a plurality of separated antennae tuned to the same frequency, and situated at a distance apart equal to an appreciable fraction of a Wave length, said antennae being adapted -to receive horizontally propagated waves in a plurality of directions, and receiving apparatus common to said antenna for utilizing the signal waves, including means for neutralizing the effects in the antennae of static disturbances, thereby reducing static interference.

8. In combination, at a radio receiving station, a plurality of antenna separated by each antenna having portions arranged at an angle to each other whereby they are In testimony whereof I have signed this adapted to receive horizontally propagated specification in the presence of two suhscrib- 10 Waves in a plurality of directions, and remg witnesses. ceiving apparatus common t0 sa1d antennae for utilizing the signal waves, including ALEXANDER WEAGANT' means for balancing out the currents in the Witnesses: antennae due to static disturbances, thereby IIERBERT G. OGDEN,

reducing static interference. J. BOTTQMLEY. 

